Research on shariah hotel: A literature review

Abstract

This article discusses about the researchers conducted on halal hotel or shariah compliant hotel. Shariah-Compliant Hotel (SCH) is defined as a hotel that provides services based on shariah principles. This article is designated to provide understanding on earlier researches about shariah hotel that were performed by previous researchers as well as future potential researches. Literature review is employed as the method in this article. The review will involve 35 papers that contain the words of halal/Islamic hotel, shariah hotel and Islamic hospitality on their title. From the discussion, it can be concluded that based on its objective, the research on this shariah hotel could be classified into eight discussions, which cover the attributes, practices, marketing, shariah-compliant and Islamic tourism, performance, halal awareness, halal obedience, opportunities and challenge on shariah hotel. Future research will be directed to discuss about the attributes on shariah hotel, practices of shariah-compliant hotel and customers' consideration, but not limited to deliberate other related topics.